The tragedy of life is not found in failure but complacency. Not in you doing too much, but doing too little. Not in you living above your means, but below your capacity. It's not failure but aiming too low, that is life's greatest tragedy.
— Benjamin E. Mays
Professional Untapped Potential quotations
You’re alive. That means you have infinite potential. You can do anything, make anything, dream anything.
Inside every seed is the potential for an incredible harvest.
Coaching is unlocking a person's potential to maximize their own performance.
It is helping them to learn rather than teaching them.
I have this ability to find this hidden talent in people that sometimes even they didn't know they had.
Given that we can live only a small part of what there is in us -- what happens with the rest?
I am a big believer that everybody has unusual, and certainly untapped, potential. The more people like that we can line up with their skill set and with their abilities, the more success we get to have.
You must decide if you are going to rob the world or bless it with the rich, valuable, potent, untapped resources locked away within you.
Development does not start with goods;
it starts with people and their education, organization, and discipline. Without these three, all resources remain latent, untapped, potential.
Most of us have more potential than we will ever develop.
What holds us back is often a lack of courage.
You have more potential than you think.
Leadership is not something that is done to people, like fixing your teeth.
Leadership is unlocking people's potential to become better.
You work and live to meet your daily needs rather than to maximize your potential. You simply exist from day to day, without much passion or enthusiasm for life. Meanwhile, your talents remain untapped, buried somewhere deep inside. This is an awful way to live.
I'm underrealized," Lula said. "I gotta lot of untapped potential. Yesterday my horoscope said I gotta expand my horizons." "You expand any more in that dress, and you'll get yourself arrested," Connie said. -- Twelve Sharp
There lies within each person a huge reservoir of untapped potential for achievement, success, happiness, health and greater prosperity. It's like an ocean unsailed, a new continent unexplored, a world of possibilities waiting to be released and channelled toward some great good.
There is giant untapped potential in disagreement, especially if the disagreement is between two or more thoughtful people
[We need] to nurture the entrepreneurial spirit and the tremendous untapped potential in our prisons.
I'm a great believer in people and their untapped potential.
In my view, Indian Railways has immense untapped potential.
Two resources, largely untapped in American organizations, are potential information and employee creativity
Untapped potential is the difference between where a person is now and where he or she can be.
The wealthiest places in the world are not gold mines, oil fields, diamond mines or banks. The wealthiest place is the cemetery. There lies companies that were never started, masterpieces that were never painted… In the cemetery there is buried the greatest treasure of untapped potential. There is a treasure within you that must come out. Don’t go to the grave with your treasure still within YOU.
One of the greatest tragedies in life is to watch potential die untapped.
That leaves 93 percent of potential untapped.
Humans only use 10 percent of the brain and 7 percent of company databases, yet we
Gratitude is the key that opens up the gateway of your heart that allows the untapped and inspiring potential of love to radiate out and cleanse your mind of any clouding uncertainties that could block you from living your most amazing and extraordinary life and dream. When you are grateful for what you have you get more to be grateful for. You life is fulfilled to the degree of your gratitude.
I think the Davis Cup has some untapped potential.
It should be as prominent as the Grand Slams when it takes place. If you put it together with Fed Cup for an organized, nationalistic team competition taking place in a central location for two weeks, I think that would be beneficial from a fan interest stand point, from a media stand point and from a television stand point.
America's greatness depends on the ability of its citizens to make the most of their lives. Americans with disabilities are an enormous, often untapped reservoir of that potential.
Mary Allen has compiled a wealth of tools and resources - both inner and outer - to support you in consciously directing your untapped potential and creating a life that you love.
How can you develop a self-concept linked to your untapped potential? First, you can decide on the kind of life you would like to lead in ten or fifteen years. This will give you a standard for making decisions about current activities and will reduce the inclination to compare yourself unfavorably to others. Learn to ask, "How would I handle this situation were I the person I hope to become?" And then take action in line with your vision.
Since we launched the original 'Pop Idol' in England, I've remained close with Simon Fuller. Working as executive producer on 'American idol' for its first seven years not only was an inspirational journey into the heart of American pop culture, it opened my eyes to the untapped potential of the incredibly dynamic young people in this world.
Women share this planet 50/50 and they are underrepresented, their potential astonishingly untapped.
A knife, it felt like a knife, and I'd discovered that despite everything that's happened, I still had an endless untapped potential for getting hurt.